...and (probably) to yours.
The conception of the Church which we tend to reproduce as the fruit of our missionary work is so much a replica of our own, so much that of a fundamentally settled body existing for the sake of its own members rather than that of a body of strangers and pilgrims, the sign and instrument of a supernatural and universal salvation to be revealed, that our missionary advance tends to follow the lines of cultural and political expansion, and to falter when that advance stops.
... Lesslie Newbigin (1909-1998), The Household of God, New York: Friendship Press, 1954, p. 166
See the book at http://cqod.com/r/rs036
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